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Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 17 OF 18
Run A1 · Outro 2 (bars 89-93)
82 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesPS2S1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-33, snare through bars 34-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-45, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 45-47, and 11 more places -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------------------------------------|
Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, S -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier?

3 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED